Above image shows Claimy Founders Pierre-Alban Mulliez (CEO), Guillaume de Lavenère and Gustave Larrouturou
Claimy is moving deeper into international publishing administration with a platform built for publishers, labels, distributors with publishing arms, and catalog owners who need clearer control over rights, registrations, collections, and income tracking across territories.
That international angle is central to the company’s current positioning. Rights management remains fragmented across countries, collection societies, metadata systems, and reporting standards. Once a catalog starts generating usage outside its home market, the chances of missed income increase quickly. Claimy is building around that specific pressure point by giving professional rights holders a cleaner way to manage catalog data, track usage, audit income, and prepare claims across multiple markets.
The Paris-based company is now operating in France, the UK, Germany, and the US, which gives it a wider footprint across several of the most relevant publishing markets. That expansion also sharpens the core pitch. Claimy is less a one-off royalty recovery tool and closer to an end-to-end publishing administration layer for catalogs that need registration, collection oversight, proactive auditing, and international income tracking in one system.
A broader approach to publishing administration
Claimy’s platform starts with catalog aggregation and rights analysis. It cross-references works, registrations, royalty rates, collection reports, and usage data from monitoring services to estimate what a rightsholder should receive. That approach helps identify gaps between reported income and expected income, especially across territories where manual tracking can become slow and inconsistent.
The platform also looks beyond primary releases. It tracks alternate versions such as remixes, covers, sped-up edits, acoustic versions, live recordings, and other versions that can create collection issues when metadata changes from one market to another. Those assets can be easy to miss in traditional catalog administration, especially when usage spreads across platforms, local societies, and international sub-publishing channels.
From there, Claimy helps turn discrepancies into structured claims that can be submitted to collecting societies and other collection partners. That changes the work from manual catalog auditing into a data-led process that gives publishers and catalog owners clearer documentation around missing or delayed income.
Why the international layer matters
For professional rights holders, the real issue rarely comes from one isolated payment error. The larger problem is fragmentation. A track can generate usage in several territories, across several platforms, through several reporting systems, and each layer creates another chance for missing metadata, incomplete registration, delayed matching, or incorrect allocation.
That is where Claimy’s international model becomes useful. A publisher managing works across France, the UK, Germany, and the US needs visibility across markets rather than a local-only view of performance. Labels and distributors with publishing arms face the same issue when recordings start moving internationally and publishing data fails to keep pace with usage.
Claimy’s current footprint gives the platform room to serve that B2B layer directly. Its users are the teams responsible for managing catalogs, protecting revenue, and making sure rights are registered and collected with accuracy. For those teams, the value comes from reducing blind spots across the publishing chain rather than chasing isolated unpaid royalties after the fact.
The company has already reported €6 million in rights under management across 160,000 works, and its client base includes teams working with major artists. That gives the platform early proof in professional catalog environments, where administration problems can scale quickly once works are active across multiple territories.
Claimy’s October 2025 fundraise helped bring attention to the company, and the current story is broader than capital. The sharper point is how Claimy is positioning itself as a publishing administration platform for an international market that still relies on fragmented systems. For publishers, labels, distributors, and catalog owners trying to protect income across borders, that type of infrastructure is becoming harder to ignore.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
